5. Individuals, groups, and institutions (sociology)
6. Power, authority and governance (political science)
7. Production, distribution, and consumption (economics)
8. Science, technology and society
Social Studies NGSSS:
SS.5.A.6.1 – Describe the causes and effects of the Louisiana Purchase.
SS.5.A.6.2 – Identify roles and contributions of significant people during the period of westward expansion.
SS.5.A.6.3- Examine 19th Century advancements (canals, roads, steamboats, flat boats, overland wagons, Pony Express, railroads) in transportation and communication.
SS.5.A.6.4 – Explain the importance of the explorations west of the Mississippi River.
SS.5.A.6.6 – Explain how westward expansion affected Native Americans.
SS.5.A.6.7 – Discuss the concept of Manifest Destiny
SS.5.A.6.9- Describe the hardships of settlers along the overland trails to the west.
SS.5.A.1.1 – Use primary and secondary sources to understand history.
SS.5.A.5.10 – Examine the significance of the Constitution including its key political concepts, origins of those concepts, and their role in American democracy.
SS.5.G.1.4 – Construct maps, charts, and graphs to display geographic information
Language Arts NGSSS:
LA.5.1.5.2 – The student will adjust reading rate based on purpose, text difficulty, form, and style.
LA.5.1.7.3 – The students will determine the main idea or essential message in grade-level text through inferring, paraphrasing, summarizing, and identifying relevant details
LA.5.1.7.4 – The student will identify cause-and-effect relationships in text
LA.5.1.7.7 – The student will compare and contrast elements in multiple text
LA.5.2.2.3 – The students will organize information to show understanding (e.g., representing main ideas within text through charting, mapping, paraphrasing, or summarizing)
LA.5.3.1.3 – The students will prewrite by organizing ideas using strategies and tools (eg. Technology, graphic organizer, KWL chart, log).
LA.5.3.5.1- The student will prepare writing using technology in a format appropriate to audience and purpose
LA.5.4.1.2- The student will write a variety of expressive forms (e.g.,fiction, short story, autobiography, science fiction, haiku) that employ figurative language (e.g. simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, hyperbole), rhythm, dialogue, characterization, plot, and/or appropriate format.
LA.5.4.2.3 – The student will write informational/expository essays that state a thesis with a narrow focus, contain introductory, body, and concluding paragraphs.
Theater NGSSS:TH.5.S.3.1 – Create and sustain imagined characters and relationships, using basic acting skills, to tell an original story based on historical, literary, or everyday situations.
Visual Arts NGSSS:
VA.5.C.1.2 – Use prior knowledge and observation skills to reflect on, analyze, and interpret exemplary works of art.
Westward Expansion - 5th Grade
Group Members:
Ashley Martin (ashley_martin@knights.ucf.edu)
Sasha Barrett (sbarrett11@knights.ucf.edu)
NCSS Themes:
1. Culture (anthropology)
2. Time, continuity, and change (history)
3. People, places and environments (geography)
5. Individuals, groups, and institutions (sociology)
6. Power, authority and governance (political science)
7. Production, distribution, and consumption (economics)
8. Science, technology and society
Social Studies NGSSS:
SS.5.A.6.1 – Describe the causes and effects of the Louisiana Purchase.
SS.5.A.6.2 – Identify roles and contributions of significant people during the period of westward expansion.
SS.5.A.6.3- Examine 19th Century advancements (canals, roads, steamboats, flat boats, overland wagons, Pony Express, railroads) in transportation and communication.
SS.5.A.6.4 – Explain the importance of the explorations west of the Mississippi River.
SS.5.A.6.6 – Explain how westward expansion affected Native Americans.
SS.5.A.6.7 – Discuss the concept of Manifest Destiny
SS.5.A.6.9- Describe the hardships of settlers along the overland trails to the west.
SS.5.A.1.1 – Use primary and secondary sources to understand history.
SS.5.A.5.10 – Examine the significance of the Constitution including its key political concepts, origins of those concepts, and their role in American democracy.
SS.5.G.1.4 – Construct maps, charts, and graphs to display geographic information
Language Arts NGSSS:
LA.5.1.5.2 – The student will adjust reading rate based on purpose, text difficulty, form, and style.
LA.5.1.7.3 – The students will determine the main idea or essential message in grade-level text through inferring, paraphrasing, summarizing, and identifying relevant details
LA.5.1.7.4 – The student will identify cause-and-effect relationships in text
LA.5.1.7.7 – The student will compare and contrast elements in multiple text
LA.5.2.2.3 – The students will organize information to show understanding (e.g., representing main ideas within text through charting, mapping, paraphrasing, or summarizing)
LA.5.3.1.3 – The students will prewrite by organizing ideas using strategies and tools (eg. Technology, graphic organizer, KWL chart, log).
LA.5.3.5.1- The student will prepare writing using technology in a format appropriate to audience and purpose
LA.5.4.1.2- The student will write a variety of expressive forms (e.g.,fiction, short story, autobiography, science fiction, haiku) that employ figurative language (e.g. simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, hyperbole), rhythm, dialogue, characterization, plot, and/or appropriate format.
LA.5.4.2.3 – The student will write informational/expository essays that state a thesis with a narrow focus, contain introductory, body, and concluding paragraphs.
Theater NGSSS:TH.5.S.3.1 – Create and sustain imagined characters and relationships, using basic acting skills, to tell an original story based on historical, literary, or everyday situations.
Visual Arts NGSSS:
VA.5.C.1.2 – Use prior knowledge and observation skills to reflect on, analyze, and interpret exemplary works of art.
VA.5.S.1.3 – Create artworks to depict personal, cultural, and/or historical themes.
VA.5.S.3.1 – Use materials, tools, techniques, and processes to achieve expected results in two- and/or three-dimensional artworks.
Mathematics NGSSS: MA.5.A.6.3- Describe real-world situations using positive and negative numbers.